2 Corinthians 5:1-21

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:3

Some make the clothing here spoken of different from the clothing before mentioned; and make this verse restrictive of what the apostle had before said, of the certainty which some have of being clothed upon with a glorious body. If so be (saith the apostle) we shall not be found naked, but clothed, i.e. with the wedding garment of Christ’s righteousness; for concerning those that do not die in the Lord, that do not watch, and keep their garments, it is said, Revelation 16:15, they shall walk... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:4

By tarbenacle, he meaneth (as he had before expounded it) the earthly house of our body. Do groan; both a groaning of grief, and also of desire. Being burdened; either with the body of flesh; or with sin, the body of death, Romans 7:24; or with the load of trials and afflictions. Not that we would be unclothed, that is, die, be unclothed of our flesh, (nature abhorreth death, and flieth from it), but clothed upon; which is expounded, 1 Corinthians 15:54, our corruptible having put on... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:5

The selfsame thing is the life, the eternal life, mentioned in the former verse; the house in the heavens, not made with hands, 2 Corinthians 5:1. God hath wrought us for it (as some interpret the text) in creation, and by his providence, forming our bodies in the womb: but it is much better interpreted by others concerning regeneration; for in the first birth (without respect to the decree of election) God hath no more wrought us for it, than the worst of men. The apostle therefore is,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:6

We are always full of courage and comfort, being confident of this glory, and the swallowing up of mortality in life: for we know, that while we are in our earthly home (which is our body) we are farthest off from that which is our true home, (which is heaven), from the vision and fruition of God; for believers are but strangers and pilgrims on the earth, desiring a better country, that is, an heavenly, Hebrews 11:13,Hebrews 11:16. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:7

That is, we live, and order our conversations, not by sight, or any evidence of sense, but by faith, which is described by the apostle, Hebrews 11:1, to be the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. We see nothing here by the eye of sense but mortality, corruption, and misery; but by faith we see another more excellent and glorious state, and we order our life according to our faith, and sight of things that are invisible: or sight here may be taken more strictly for... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:8

We are confident of such a blessed state, and this makes us willing to be out of this body, that we might have the glorious presence and enjoyment of God to all eternity. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:9

Having such a hope, yea, not such a hope only, but such an assurance and confidence, we labour, both actively, doing the will of God, and passively, submitting to the will of God in all afflictive providences; that while we are in the body, and absent from the Lord, we may be accepted of him; as we know we shall be, when we shall be present with him, in another sense than we now are. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:10

The apostle declareth, either the ground of his confidence, or, rather, the reason of his and other believers’ labour, so to behave themselves, as that, both in life and death, they might be accepted of God; that was, his knowledge and firm belief of the last judgment. It is called the judgmentseat of Christ, because he it is whom God hath appointed to be the judge both of the quick and the dead, Acts 10:42. The word translated appear, is πεφανερωσθαι, which signifieth to be made manifest, and... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:11

We believing and being fully persuaded, that there shall be such a great and terrible day of the Lord, when there shall be such a narrow inquiry and search into whatsoever men have thought, spoke, or done in the flesh; we persuade men to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, to walk according to the rule of the gospel, to be charitable towards us, and not to censure or judge us, or use against us hard speeches. If any will not be persuaded to think well of us, yet the sincerity of our hearts and... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:12

I do not speak this to commend myself unto you; he had before declared, that he trusted that he was made manifest to their consciences, and so needed not further to commend himself. But (saith he) I speak it only to give you occasion to glory, to glory in me as the apostle of Christ unto you, or to defend me against the scandals and reproaches of those that reproach me, when themselves have no true inward cause of glorying, though they have in outward appearance, in respect of their riches,... read more

Grupo de marcas